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AUCTIONS.

Pine and Spruce Deal. 0 BE SOLD, nit AUCTION, TO-IIIORROIV EVENING, (Thursday), l9th inst., on I’eiike's Wharf, at 6 o'clock. 20,000 ft. refuse PINE and SPRUCE DEAL, (suitable for Plank Buildings.) JAMES MORRlS,Auctioneer. July is, 1355.

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the Gentlemen of Charlottetown, end the

' Eblio generally, for their liberal patrons s. end begs

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in dillioulty from her perched t - a pause, she added, more qulél , "it was uite

MOTHER AND STEP-MOTHER‘. cnsrrnit. xiii.

“ Kir'r\',” cried Edward, bursting into the drawing-room, at the Parsonage, where Catherine sat with an open book before her, but thoughts wandering far away, “Kitty, my dear sister, what am I to do’! Here I have been puzzling my brain for the last ten days to compose an Epiihslamium for you and Frank! I tried Greek ﬁret, but you know I’ve only read the Prometheus, and Iambics don’t come easy. I tried Latin next, but I couldn't determine whether it should be in Sspphics or Alcsics, and owing to the confusion of my mind, half the stanza was in one and half in the other; so down I fell to English,_ plain, wholesome English, as father calls it—which is, after all, the most Christian language of the three. I shall have a con le of hours’ hard fighting with the Muse, by and by, end I'll bring her coy ladyship to terms, depend upon it. If you could but help me to a rhyme, new and then —but, of course, that is not to be expected Mother is tremendously grand to-day. I can’t get a word out of her, or I’d have pressed _her into the service. She is glorious at ﬁnding rhymes. She has got a splendid gown for to- morrow, and s bonnett my aunt would give her ears for.

“ I wish I could show her how grateful I am for all her goodness to us." said Catherine.

“ I don't thing you need feel oppressed by the weight of the obligation,” replied Edward, gaily ; " though I must say mother has behaved splendidly about Elinglt-n ; and one must not mind her bein-_- s little cross sometimes. But come, Kitty! If I go and fetch the horses, you'll have one more ride with me, won’t you, before you join the formipable corps of mstrons. Just one last

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Catherine not unwillingly consented, for she loved the boy dearly; and. in the near opproach ofsn event so important, she felt herself unable to exercise her habitual control over her thoughts. It was a day in early autumn. The foliage had lost nothing of its snmmer fullness, though it was coloured here and there with the beautiful shades that herald its decay. Roses clustered round the cottage doors, and the air was fragrant with clematis, while the stately autumn ﬂowers nodded queenly greetings to each other, and the ripe fruits bssked in the sunshine. The fresh wind, the blue sky, the rich landscape, combined to raise the spirits of the riders. Never had Edward looked so handsome; never had the play of his mind been so graceful. Catherine could not help gazing with admiration on his dark animated countenance, and on the supple grace of his moveme ts.

" I wid be with you before breakfast to-morrow, Kitty,” e gsily cried, as he rode away, leading the pony she had been riding “ as soon as ever Frank is off my hands! And never fear but I’ll finish the Epithalamiuin, if I invoke all the N inc, at once, to my ei . '

She lingered to look after him as he rode down the lsne,on his loesy chestnut hunter, singing joyously, and wit many a bright backward look and glad farewell.

CHAPTER XIV.

THI autumn day had long since closed. Lurid clouds shut in the horizon; and the full harvest moon waded through majestic cloude—now walled in dense messes-—now in {re ments of

or us shape. Lady Irwin on the

slcooy on which her dressing-room opened. The hesv shade of the trees; the stillness, broken ﬁtfully by the meanings of the rising wind, and the jagged clouds; were in grand harmony with her spirit. The weight at her heart seemed a little lightened as she contemplated, in the deepening night, this tempest hate ing in apparent calm, and ready to burst.

The door of the chamber opened, but so softly. that it was only by the current of air produced that Lady Irwin was aware of it. Aguese entered the room, her olive cheek pale, and her thin lips compressed.

l.sdy Irwin stepped slowly from the balcony, her e es lined in eager inqulr on her attendant.

“ tie done,”sald the Its ien, speaking with

hroet. Then, after

. Theglsm was en the tn is where lslton Iitdypleced it, with the Seltzer water. It was

l all as usual. The night is hot; he will certainly drink.”

“ lfhe should discoverit.’f said Lady Irwin.

“I placed the powder in the glass as you bade me. It is inipalpable,—if there is only enough.”

*‘ What I gave you would destroy half-a-dozen l lives. lint what, iflie should not drink?"

' “ I do not fear that. He will be weary. And I lost that cold drink should be insuﬁicient to temp. him, lget some claret, and placed it hard by. The Cure has no great choice of wines. He will not fail to drink.” i “ Is he not yet come home? He lingers to- ,night. Iwisli it were over. This suspense is I unentlurable. Did you hear nothing then‘! "Only the sighing of the wind through the trees. There will be wild work among them to- ! night. Wild work within, and wild work without: lstout young branches rent and snapped, like a tulip by the hand ofa child."

“ Be silent, Agnese,” cried Lady Irwin, ﬁercely; “ the sound of your voice makes me mad! Be silent, and let me listen.”

In obedience to her command Agnese was silent. 'I‘he agony of expectation became every moment more intense. Yet there was no touch of remorso—ne timely repentance. Every nerve was stimulated to the highest pitch of sensibility.

nuntls, in general scarcely audible, seemed so loud and importunate, as to be almost unendurable.

very pulsation of the great clock on the staircase, the ﬂuttering ofa moth against the window, the whining ofa bat’s wing in its tortuous ﬂight, were all so many sources of agony.

“The glass must be changed, and the wine taken away,” said Lady Irwin. at last, unable longer nrendure the silence, "Have you thought ofthnt, Agnesef They will betray us.”

“I shall not dare to go in," cried Agnesc, shrinking with terror.

“ Not dare to go in!" repeated Lady with surprise. " What should you car?

f‘ When he isdesdl" said Aguese, ln a low

Irwin, 1,

voice. “ What harm can the poor clay do you, sim- pleton I” cried Lady Irwin. scornfully. " What.’ the daughter of Beatrice Pistorella !"

Agnese hung her head, and was silent.

“ He will only look like one in a deep sleep- like one in sdeep leaden sleep. We have only lulled him to sleep—to the sweet dreamless sleep that knows no waking. His individual essence- ihat in him which gleaned and sufl'ered—will be resumed into the great all-pervading sou-I. He is but rocked to sleep a little before his time, to be reproduced in some other form of being. It is she who will suffer: the pain and the wee will be all here. But hark! I hear Sir Edward's door open. He will be amazed to find me still dressed. Quick, Agnese. Give me my dressing- _gown, and let down my hair.”

As she hastened the operations of her waiting- woman, whose hands, cold and clsmmy with excitement, were little apt to render her service, the clock struck eleven.

“ He cannot be lon now,” said Lady Irwin, assisting her maid to unfasten the lon coils of her hair. " If you are afraid to go a one, wait for me, and, when Sir Edward is asleep, I will come to your room, and we will go together. How awkward you are to-night, Agnese. Comb my hair carefully instead of testing it. c you forget we are to have a wedding to-morrew I”

At this moment Sir Edward came through the dressing-room. I-Ic paused to any a few words to his wife, and to make some inquiries as to the arrangements for the morrow. Lady Irwin's face retlected in the mirror, shaded though it was by the profuse masses of her hair, struck him by its extreme allor, made the more remarkable by the feverish rilliancy of her eyes. He lingered to observe her, and, tenderly chidlng her negli- gence ef her health, closed the window.

It seemed to Lady Irwin and to Agneso that he would never go. In vain she returned short answers. He was evidently disturbed about her. He would not go, but began to talk of other things. Aware of the extreme danger of awaken- ing his suspicions, she did her best to simulate an interest she did not feel. But when she became aware thateeme one was moving in the room above, which was Frsnk’s her excitement beceine unoontrollsblr At length, shaking her hair over er fsce,so as almost to conceal her features, she said, with s desperate attempt at playfulness,

H’

Coins Eda-erd,l shell qnsrrelwlth you, if

-speechless but eager inquiry.

you do not go quickly. Here I have kept poor guess for half-an-hour over my hair. Remember we must be u betimes in the morning.”

As she spoke, there was a slight tumult over hesd. and a sound as of something falling.

“Fran is noisy,” said Sir Edwa.d, with; smile. “Isuppose he doosn’t feel particulsrl sleepy. I didn’t know he was come home.” And so saying, he took up his candle and went into the bedroom.

When he was gone, Lady Irwin closed the door, and turned her face towards Agnese. The two guilty creatures looked at each other in ' ' They listened breaihlessly, but there was nothing more to break the stillness above. The great clock ticked, the wind walled among the trees, and the rain came in lﬁavy drops, splashing on the terrace and ploughing up the earth. With these sounds, mingled the peaceful movements of Sir Edws as he prepared for repose. The lightning ﬂee across the windows in ﬁerce succession, disclosing the milled landscape and the pale eager faces of the wicked women.

All it once, there was a noise of opening and shutting doors; a quick step mounted the stairs; it passed Lady Irwin's door, and ascended to the room above. The women looked at each other in en agony of expectation; who can imagine the inexpressible terror of that moment?

he was it that came so swiftly l—-who had fallen afew minutes before? The steps in the chamber above went rapidly to and fro. Then there were amomentsry pause-n great cry of surprise or terror——hssiy movements—the ﬂinging open ofa window—t1ie violent ringing of a bell—- the heavy step of one carrying a burden: then a hasty running down stairs, and a pause at Sig Edward ’e door.

“ For God's sake, get up, sir!” cried Frank’e voice, in a whisper, a whisper terribly audible to Led ,Irwin. “ Don't alarm my mother: Edward is il .

" Where? What is the matter?” cried Sir Edward,stsrting up in alarm.

“I don’t know—he seems He is in my room. I'll go?-

But here he was interrupted by a shriek nu loud, so terrible, that it seemed like the rending asunder of soul and body, and Lady Irwin rushed in with ﬁerce desperate eyes, demanding the truth.

Wildly raving, and followed by Sir Edward and his son, who strove in vain to restrain her, and wondered at her strange and terrible words, she rushed to the chamber where the awful punishment of her crime awaited her. Little wonder that the sight which there blasted her vision overthrew her reason: for there he lay, the gallant boy just on the verge of manhood, not halfan hour ago so full of joy and promise, dead on a couch beside the opened window, the stormy wind blowing his long hair in and fro.

On the table stood the glass, and by it lay tho copy of verses which had been the occasion of his visit to his brother’s room. He had gone to rest early, as his mother thought, but he had set his heart on finishing his poem, and having succeeded beyond his expectation, had taken it to read to his brother:entering his room by a study common to the two. The wine which was to ensure the destruction of his brother had tempted the boy. weary with excitement, and he had drunk.

Consternstion sud dismay spread through the house and village. The facts of theesse were too notorious to be concealed. Lady Irwiu’n reason was destroyed by the f ' htful catastrophe; end she now bemosned hes chi d—now demanded vengeance on his muvdereee. Agnese, over- whelmed by her repyloachoe, attempted neithes escs nor defence. ith a curious self-devotion, she ound some solace in her misery, by errogsting to herself the guilt which she shared with her mistress; and in her shameful death felt a low of triumph in the then ht that sheen for the enl bein she love .

Sir war , overwhelmed by the loss of hie child and by the crime of his wife, humbled himself at the foot of the cross, and in the depth of his misery learnt to prise the light whioh,if he had not despised, he had disregarded. The marlin e between Frank and Catherine was solemn nsd h his desire, when s_ year had passed; sndt ey retired to) Devonehtre, where. to works of active benevolence, and in a fervent but humble spirit, they endeavoured to live by

’to have fainted.

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